06.11.15 • Added a page to the History section with A brief history of the Irish joint Stock banks of note issue.
This was originally a storage page for the bank histories which are used in various places throughout the web site. I thought it appropriate to add as a single list in the History section.

A few days ago a friend of mine pointed out the modernity and convenience of consuming data by means of RSS-like data feeds. As we aim to be modern around here, I have duly added a few strategic RSS Feed icons to some of the site main pages pointing towards the Irish Paper Money Data Feed

Missing Lavery and Ploughman notes will be added as they turn up, as will missing replacement notes.
Quite a few of the Lavery notes have appeared out of the woodwork within the past year, so the project is going quite well.

Dead links, dead links, dead links.
It is very annoying when a web site moves it's pages around, so as to break incoming links. Museums and government web sites are the worst for it, in my experience. Their designers don't seem to appreciate that other sites might actually want to link to the information they provide I'll just delete them and find some alternative. I always save a local copy of anything really useful, can't assume that it will be there next time you go looking!

There are a few other newly dead links on the site—I'll wait a while to see if the web sites reappear before discarding them and finding alternatives. Owners probably just forgot to pay their maintenance fees.

It's holiday time, and that means no numismatic work gets done!
Now that we are back from holiday it is time to add a few more bits to our web site.

A new section on 'Design Variations' will be added shortly. Chunk One of it is nearly complete. Again, this is a section which has been half done for a while, and has just been stuck in a pool of, er, inertia.

The first chunk will deal with Mulberry notes and the 01X, 02X prefix £1 notes.

Also included is the Design 2 £1 note variety (Lavery notes dated 1959–1960), which needs more pictures and detail;
and the 1958 Emerald Green £1 note variety—I am not sure how well the emerald Green looks on a computer monitor.

Work has started on upgrading the Old Notes section. Much of this section dates from the modem days, with the images being as light as possible, and pages made short to facilitate loading. Anyway, that's all behind us now, and an upgrade is overdue.

Irishpapermoney.com has just gone to version 2.1.0.
This is a major back-end upgrade to make the entire website more googlable (if that's a word). Actually, the entire structure of the website has been rearranged, and most primary and secondary pages have been renamed. This will cause most bookmarked pages and current google links to fail. Google should be able to re-index the site shortly.

EDIT: One drawback with page and directory name changes is that Forum to Site links break, and need to be updated, currently underway....

One of the drawbacks of the internet is that good source and reference links are apt to disappear at any time without any warning—rather annoying that. Also annoying is the Austrian Central bank website which doesn't want to work, and the British Museum which keeps deleting its website pages—I'm just not going to bother linking to any of its content in future.